"Weird low res jpegs on almost everything"

Hey guys......i am having an issue with some thing wierd. I'm having an issue with any kind of jpeg (that's about all i use) , that if i take it off a sim card from my camera , or an in-game screenshot , the picture is terrible!! The weird thing is that if i take a screenshot of a webpage , when i'm online , it's clear as a bell. i am opening them up in paintshop pro and have never had this problem before , until about two months ago.

I really haven't looked into it , because until now , i kept putting it off. i look at the picture information in paintshop pro and the information states that it's the same as the good ones? Is there something i might have "de-tuned" to maybe make the computer take these good pics and turn them into low resolution peices of crap??

A forum called Light Stalkers has a topic called jpeg optimization for the web. This may give a better explanation or hint at your problem than I can.

Meanwhile, I know if I take a snap shot of something with my phone camera in regular mode and put it to my computer I get a fair pic. However, if I zoom in with the phone camera then the quality looks good on the camera but not on the computer.

JPEG files loose something every time they are decompressed. Using filters such as Photoshop and others to tweak the pic or save it in another format may be an answer to your problem.

In my humble opinion I donâ€™t think that you are loosing so much in the transfer (well, maybe some) but rather it is the quality of the files when they were originally created. Note that Iâ€™m not saying that the camera has low or high quality. Instead Iâ€™m saying the FILE creation process may be less than what you need.

There are some geeks here that really get into this stuffâ€¦I only use what I have to know to get a pic on-line or save it for something I took around the house at some family gatheringâ€¦not really my forte. You might get lucky and get somebody here to work with you that is really â€œin the knowâ€ about this sort of thing.

Thanks for the reply Will !! I have considered some of the quality being lost in the transition from the camera to the computer....at first. My earlier pics i took with the camera and then got uploaded turned out awesome. very high res pictures. Then one day , they just all seemd to be bad for some reason when i uploaded new ones. with the old ones still being good.

the reason why i think it's with the computer is the ALT+PRT SC funtion seems to produce really low res pictures when i open them up in paintshop. But the ALT+PRT SC when i do it to a web page or just my desktop is really good.

For some reason , the computer is telling me that the "image information" is the same for both "print screens" , it's just that the actuall pictures are turning out with a really low compression.

I have had some problems with certain malwares and stuff like that over the last few months , and when i cleaned one of them out , it changed the way my computer reads jpegs.

BUT........when i go to a site and see a cool picture , and i just right click and save it......it's perfect. If i alt print screen it , it turns out like crap!